Samuel moore



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PIN TONGUE.

No. 244,071. Patented July 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

sAMnEL MooEE, OF PROVIDENCE, EHoDE ISLAND.

PIN-TONGUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,071, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed February 15, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL MOORE, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Pin-Tongues; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in the hinged pins used in jewelry and other articles for securing them.

The invention consists in providing the article with an improved bearing or hinge and the pin with a sleeve, forming the journal of the pin, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved pin-tongue, showing the same secured to a piece of jewelry or other article. Fig. 2 is a view of the pin proper. Fig. 3 is a view of that part of the hinge which is intended to be secured to the article, shown as a flat strip in one view and as bent up to form the double bearing in the other. Fig. 4 is a view of the blank from which is formed that portion of the hinge which is to be secured to the pin, and also of said portion completed. Fig.5is aview of the pin-tongue provided with the hinge portion.

The object of this invention is to make pinton goes for jewelry and other articles without soldering the hinge on the same, so as to save the burnishing or hardening of the pin after the hinge has been secured, which is necessary when the hinge is soldered to the pin, as the heat softens the pin so that it would be useless.

1n the drawings, a is the pin, one end of which is pointed and the other bent so as to form the eye I).

cis ablank of sheet metal, stamped as shown, provided withthe holes at d and e is the bin gesleeve, made by bending the blank 0. This and applied Without skilled labor.

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sleeve is passed over the pin until the holes d d, madein the blank 0 and extending from the sleeve 0, will be on a line with the eye b, so that the hinge-pin can pass through the holes and the eye, and can thus hold the sleeve cin place, forming a hinge that is secured without solder, and from which the pin can be readily removed and a new pin substituted. The part of the hinge secured to the article is made by first stamping the blank f, and then bending the same to form the support 9, which in thisbent form gives a good support to the pin at g, so as to give the desired spring to the pin to retain the point in the catch.

By this construction the hinge can be made All the parts can be stamped out of sheet metal, bent up, and secured without the use of solder and without the use of heat. They require no repolishing or burnishing, and can be more readily made or repaired than pin-tongues of the old construction, while they are stronger, stiffer, and more durable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A pin-tongue having an eye formed on its end and provided with a sheet-metal sleeve, having eyes projecting therefrom and coinciding with the eye of the pin, substantially as described, so that a hinge-pin will pass through the eyes of both sleeve and pin-tongue.

2. The combination of the pin at, having eye I), sleeve 0, having the projecting eyes, and the support g, formed from the blank constructed to form part of the hinge, substantially as described.

SAML. MOORE. Witnesses:

J OSEPH A. MILLER, J r., WM. L. T0015. 

